CanAlaska Uranium commences winter drilling program at the Cree East project

January 27, 2010 Filed Under: Uranium Mining  
CanAlaska Uranium commences winter drilling program at the Cree East project

CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. announce that the Company has commenced exploration on its Cree East uranium project in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan, Canada. The Cree East project is funded under a joint venture with the Company’s Korean strategic partners, comprising Hanwha Corporation, Korea Electric Power Corp., Korea Resources Corp. and SK Energy Co, Ltd. The Company recently received Cdn$4.12... 

Delta to Commence Geophysical Exploration Program at Delcer Buttes Property in Nevada

January 12, 2010 Filed Under: Copper Mining, Precious Metal  
Delta to Commence Geophysical Exploration Program at Delcer Buttes Property in Nevada

Delta Mining & Exploration Corporation announce that a geophysical work program will begin this week on the Delcer Buttes gold/copper property in Elko County. The property consists of 31 unpatented hard-rock mining claims (680 acres) and lies to the east of the Carlin trend which contains numerous mines producing close to 3 million ounces gold per year in total and south of Long Canyon, Fronteer... 

Timberline Expands Land Position at Its Butte Highlands Gold Project

October 29, 2009 Filed Under: Precious Metal  
Timberline Expands Land Position at Its Butte Highlands Gold Project

Timberline Resources Corporation announced that it has acquired the mineral and surface rights to additional mineral claims adjacent to and nearby its Butte Highlands Gold Project joint venture. Timberline executed a lease agreement with an option to purchase four patented claims at its Butte Highlands Gold Project. The additional claims are contiguous to the company’s existing claims and along... 

Quaterra Signs Earn-In Agreement With Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation for Peg Leg Copper Project in Arizona

August 27, 2009 Filed Under: Copper Mining  
Quaterra Signs Earn-In Agreement With Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation for Peg Leg Copper Project in Arizona

Quaterra Resources Inc. a junior exploration company focused on making significant mineral discoveries in North America announced it has signed an earn-in agreement with Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation of Phoenix, Arizona (FMEC), for the Company’s Peg Leg copper project in Arizona. In the terms of the agreement, FMEC has the exclusive right and option to acquire a 70% ownership interest... 

Minera Andes initiates exploration on 100%-owned targets in Argentina

August 24, 2009 Filed Under: Copper Mining, Lithium Mining, Precious Metal  
Minera Andes initiates exploration on 100%-owned targets in Argentina

Minera Andes Inc. announce exploration plans for two principal areas in Argentina. 1) Santa Cruz province where the Corporation’s San Jose mine is located and 2) San Juan province, site of the Corporation’s recent Los Azules copper discovery. The target in Santa Cruz province is high-grade epithermal gold-silver mineralization. In San Juan province porphyry-style copper mineralization is... 

Quest to Acquire Property Adjacent to the Strange Lake Rare Earth Deposit in the George River Area, Quebec

May 27, 2009 Filed Under: Mining Investment, Mining Stocks, Uranium Mining  
Quest to Acquire Property Adjacent to the Strange Lake Rare Earth Deposit in the George River Area, Quebec

Quest Uranium Corporation announce that it has entered into a purchase and sale agreement with two prospectors for the acquisition by Quest of a 100% interest in single block of mining claims in the Strange Lake area of northeastern Quebec. The property is fully enveloped by Quest’s Stewart Lake property (Figure 1) and lies immediately north of the Strange Lake REE-zirconium (Zr)-yttrium (Y)-niobium... 

Perseverance Paying Off for Aura Silver at High-Grade Gold / Silver, VMS Project in Nunavut

May 26, 2009 Filed Under: Precious Metal  
Perseverance Paying Off for Aura Silver at High-Grade Gold / Silver, VMS Project in Nunavut

Aura Silver Resources Inc. is pleased to report the results of the Company’s analysis of airborne geophysical data which was undertaken during 2007 and 2008 by Fugro Airborne Surveys Corporation on the Company’s 100% owned Greyhound Lake property in Nunavut, Canada. The geophysical analysis was performed by L.E. Reed Geophysical Consultant. This assessment supplements our geochemical analysis... 

Drilling Underway at Gossan-Marathon’s Bird River Project

Drilling Underway at Gossan-Marathon's Bird River Project

Gossan Resources Limited has been advised by its joint venture partner, Marathon PGM Corporation, that the planned winter drilling campaign at the Bird River Project is now underway. The drill program is designed to improve the size, grade and quality of the resources recently defined at the Page Block and Ore Fault zones and also to test three high priority geophysical targets located to the east... 

Anviron Awarded Long-Term Reclamation Modeling Contract

December 17, 2008 Filed Under: Mining Services  

The Anviron Holding Company, a manufacturer and marketer of “Clean & Green” products and technology, announced today that its TerraSolve subsidiary has signed a long-term contract for reclamation modeling and carbon credit analysis with the Nigerian National Oil Corporation and their subsidiary the Integrated Data Services Limited. The contract will focus on developing complex environmental... 

ION and PGS Sign Fleet-Wide Agreement for Orca

December 1, 2008 Filed Under: Oil and Gas  

ION Geophysical Corporation announced that its Concept Systems software group has signed a five-year agreement with Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), one of the leading geophysical companies in the world. The agreement, the largest ever for Concept Systems software, specifies that PGS will upgrade all existing 2D and 3D towed streamer vessels to Orca® command & control in a phased manner and that...